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Big Time

Angel Olsen
CD

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Release Date: 03/06/2022

Edition: Album
Genre: Rock
Sub-Genre: Folk-Rock
Label: Jagjaguwar
Number of Discs: 1

'Big Time' is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness and optimism is tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss. During Olsen's process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was time to come out to her parents, a hurdle she'd been avoiding for some time. 'Finally, at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me', she said. Three days later, her father died and shortly after her mother passed away. The shards of this grief - the shortening of her chance to finally be seen more fully by her parents - are scattered throughout the album. Three weeks after her mother's funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender new album. Loss has long been a subject of Olsen's elegiac songs, but few can write elegies with quite the reckless energy as she. If that bursting-at-the-seams, running downhill energy has come to seem intractable to her work, this album proves Olsen is now writing from a more rooted place of clarity. She's working with an elastic, expansive mastery of her voice - both sonically and artistically. These are songs not just about transformational mourning, but of finding freedom and joy in the privations as they come.

Track Listing:
1: All the Good Times
2: Big Time
3: Dream Thing
4: Ghost On
5: All the Flowers
6: Right Now
7: This Is How It Works
8: Go Home
9: Through the Fires
10: Chasing the Sun
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